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04-10-2012, 10:50 AM
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The Most Fun You Can Have In A Full-Size, All-Weather American
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The American full-size segment isn't an overly welcoming place for those of us who worship at the altar of skinny-pedal antics. While European automakers are happy to deliver their customers a raft of monolithic luxury barges with Saturn V levels of thrust, We The People have been largely left with coma-inducing hardware like the Cadillac DTS (http://www,autoblog.com/cadillac/dts), Chevrolet Impala (http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/impala) and Lincoln MKS (http://www.autoblog.com/lincoln/mks). Meanwhile, bruisers like the Mercedes-Benz E550 4Matic (http://www.autoblog.com/mercedes-benz/e-class), BMW 550i xDrive (http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/5 series) and Audi A6 (http://www.autoblog.com/audi/a6) all boast all-wheel drive capability with sports-car besting performance cocooned in the threads of a tailored three-piece suit. These days, if you want serious big-car, bad-weather go with a domestic badge on the hood, you have just a few options, including the 2013 Taurus SHO (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/taurus+sho/).
So far, Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford) says it hasn't had any trouble convincing buyers to abandon traditional big-boned performance vehicles for the SHO resurrection. Around 10 percent of all Taurus sales leave the showroom with a SHO badge on the fender, and half of the performance sedan's sales have been conquest buyers sniped from brands like BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/bmw) and Audi (http://www.autoblog.com/audi). For 2013, this D-class athlete boasts a slew of mid-cycle changes to keep the model fresh. If, like us, you have a hard time imagining a buyer skipping the 5 Series for a Taurus, a few new exterior tweaks, a more aggressive brake system, a reworked version of MyFord Touch and a new track performance package are all designed to help change your mind.Continue reading 2013 Ford Taurus SHO (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/10/2013-ford-taurus-sho-first-drive-review/)
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The Most Fun You Can Have In A Full-Size, All-Weather American
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The American full-size segment isn't an overly welcoming place for those of us who worship at the altar of skinny-pedal antics. While European automakers are happy to deliver their customers a raft of monolithic luxury barges with Saturn V levels of thrust, We The People have been largely left with coma-inducing hardware like the Cadillac DTS (http://www,autoblog.com/cadillac/dts), Chevrolet Impala (http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/impala) and Lincoln MKS (http://www.autoblog.com/lincoln/mks). Meanwhile, bruisers like the Mercedes-Benz E550 4Matic (http://www.autoblog.com/mercedes-benz/e-class), BMW 550i xDrive (http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/5 series) and Audi A6 (http://www.autoblog.com/audi/a6) all boast all-wheel drive capability with sports-car besting performance cocooned in the threads of a tailored three-piece suit. These days, if you want serious big-car, bad-weather go with a domestic badge on the hood, you have just a few options, including the 2013 Taurus SHO (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/taurus+sho/).
So far, Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford) says it hasn't had any trouble convincing buyers to abandon traditional big-boned performance vehicles for the SHO resurrection. Around 10 percent of all Taurus sales leave the showroom with a SHO badge on the fender, and half of the performance sedan's sales have been conquest buyers sniped from brands like BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/bmw) and Audi (http://www.autoblog.com/audi). For 2013, this D-class athlete boasts a slew of mid-cycle changes to keep the model fresh. If, like us, you have a hard time imagining a buyer skipping the 5 Series for a Taurus, a few new exterior tweaks, a more aggressive brake system, a reworked version of MyFord Touch and a new track performance package are all designed to help change your mind.Continue reading 2013 Ford Taurus SHO (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/10/2013-ford-taurus-sho-first-drive-review/)
2013 Ford Taurus SHO (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/10/2013-ford-taurus-sho-first-drive-review/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.mnfords.com/rss-term-of-use/).
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